Turn Knowledge into College Credit at UExcel.com

Homeschoolers deserve to get credit for all the hard work they do… college credit. How can your student build up an impressive transcript that documents advanced learning? How can you inspire your self-motivated teen? Consider all the benefits of credit-by-examination programs. These programs allow homeschooled students to earn college credit in undergraduate subjects while still in high school. There are two other big advantages: your student saves time on the path to higher education and you save significant dollars in college tuition costs.

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Create Your High School Transcript in Five Easy Steps

By Janice Campbell

I like to make things simple. There are few things sadder than a homeschooling parent who would like to homeschool through high school, but is considering giving up because keeping high school records and creating a transcript sounds like an insurmountable challenge. I've been through the process four times with my own sons, and I'd like to share the basic steps that helped make recordkeeping simple. If you're like me and you'd rather spend time with people than paperwork, you may find this five-step process helpful as well.

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What I Learn From Students During Exams

By Dr. Sean D. Collins, Professor at Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA.

I teach in a college whose students are, on the whole, rather impressive. They are, without a doubt, well above average in their self-discipline, their desire to learn the truth, and their maturity. I count myself fortunate for this, because as a professor I always hope to find students who are teachable, students who will be able to become, in their turn, the standard-bearers of a culture and civilization which is under assault and in serious need of life-support.

 

Hence, I am always disappointed at the end of each semester when exam time comes. Why is it that many students whom I know to be mature, serious, interested in learning and intelligent, demonstrate regularly by their showing on exams, that their classes have been more or less a waste of time?

This question becomes all the more mysterious when one considers that the classes these students take are no ordinary classes. We do not allow our students to listen passively to lectures. They must come to class having studied the material beforehand – most of it from the original texts of great authors, such as Aristotle, Dostoyevski or Einstein – and they must discuss it intelligently in class, with the help of the tutor. We call ourselves “tutors” instead of professors so that it will be understood that we are not the primary teachers.

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Pell Grants – a Gift From Uncle Sam

By Emerson Sandow

Since the early 1980s, the Pell Grant Program has provided much-needed relief to students from a variety of secondary educational backgrounds, including those attending vocational schools in such programs as two-year nursing certification, court-reporting, paralegal, and legal secretarial, as well as the standard two- and four-year college paths.

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Looking Back After A Year of College (Part 1)
at the Beginning of My Homeschooling Years

by Shannon Lee Clair, Princeton University Class of ‘09

Shannon homeschooled from second grade through high school in Los Angeles, CA. This is the first of a series of articles reflecting on her experiences homeschooling and making the transition to college. See part 2 of the article here.

I’m sitting in the middle of the Green Mountains of Vermont, feeling a bit grimy after a day of backpacking. Around me, relaxing among the scattered packs and fallen logs are my equally grimy fellow hikers. Eight of us, including myself, are members of Princeton’s freshman class, enjoying the pre-orientation Outdoor Action trip; the two others are our Upperclassmen leaders.

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